undo

UNDO, verb transitive preterit tense undid; participle passive undone. 1. To reverse what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught any transaction. We can undo many kinds of work; but we cannot undo crimes, errors or faults. Tomorrow ere the setting sun, she'd all undo what she had done. 2. To loose; to open; to take to pieces; to unravel; to unfasten; to untie; as, to undo a knot. 3. To ruin; to bring to poverty; to impoverish. Many are undone by unavoidable losses; but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence. 4. To ruin, in a moral sense; to bring to everlasting destruction and misery. 5. To ruin in reputation.